Quotes and Sayings About Art
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If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.
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When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!
-- Luis GonzalezSource : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.
-- Luis GonzalezSource : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.
-- Luis GonzalezSource : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.
-- Luis J. RodriguezSource : Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.
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Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives.
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I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.
-- Luis J. RodriguezSource : Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.
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asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too far' thing, the great thing about film art is that you can go too far, and with multiple takes nobody has to see it.
-- Luke KirbySource : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
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I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.
-- Lynne Rae PerkinsSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.
-- Manuel Alvarez Bravo -
Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.
-- Manuel Alvarez BravoSource : Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A. D. Coleman (1987). “Manuel Álvarez Bravo”, Aperture
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The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art.
-- Manuel de Falla -
Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.
-- Marc EckoSource : Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
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The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an artistic statement is very interesting. It takes things a step further.
-- Marc QuinnSource : "Marc Quinn interview: Just a load of shock? (2000)". Interview with R.J. Preece, www.artdesigncafe.com. September 15, 2009.
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There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional writing. Occasionally, you get people who can write in an interesting way. Really, I think in a sense art writing needs to be renewed as well. It's in a pretty bad condition.
-- Marc QuinnSource : "Marc Quinn on artwriting (2000)". Interview with R.J. Preece, www.artdesigncafe.com. November 13, 2010.
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Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest
-- Marcello Mastroianni -
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.
-- Jeremy HuntSource : "Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt: 'It is going to be tough'". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
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I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns, and then you illustrate those concerns in whatever manner you see appropriate. For me, it has always been that the world suggests far more subtle and interesting variations than I could ever come up with.
-- John Gossage -
I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.
-- Kevin BleyerSource : "Don’t Watch" by Kevin Bleyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2005.
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